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I have 3 L7 kicker 15" subs will my audio pipe 1500 watt run them
Well the L7 15'' solo-baric subs are rated at 1000 watts RMS, so that would be 3000 watts of RMS amplifier power you would need to supply to adequately power all of them. I also suggest that an amp capable of producing more power than what is needed is usually better in order to prevent the amplifier from running at maximum capacity for long periods. In short your amplifier will power those subs, however you will only be able to supply 1500 RMS watts to the three subs so you will only be pushing the subs to 50% of their rated capacity while using 100% of amp capacity which will make your amp run "hot" and your subs run "weak", but if you're in a pinch it will work. Your best bet in this situation is to wire the setup so that the subs and amp are operating at minimum ohm stable impendence (usually 2 ohm). Seeing that you have 3 subs begging for 3,000 watts of power and you are only going to give it half of what it wants, I would suggest upgrading the amp or at least buying another one so that you can bridge the wattage and redistribute to all three subs with the correct impendence.
How can I wire a 2 ohm and 4 ohm kicker dual voice coil speakers to a JL 500 1 channel amp
Ok, so you have a single 2 ohm speaker and a 4 ohm speaker with dual voice coils? The JBL Is a 2 Ohm load I believe.I ran through the maths...Series parallel with the 4 Ohms in series in parallel with the 2 Ohm gives you 1.6 Ohms2 x 4 ohms in parallel with a 2 ohm in series gives you 4 Ohms which is no good.All three in series give you 10 ohms which is no good.All three parallel gives 1 ohm.So with this set up you cannot create a perfect match. So you will always run the risk of bad audio or the amp blowing at high output.
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